Bitcoin is the ultimate freedom test. It tells you who is giving lip service and who genuinely believes in it.

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If you want to see the big picture, if you want to be positively blown away by all the ways Bitcoin will change the world, I invite you to read one of the classic works by Ludwig von Mises or other Austrian economist, like Socialism*, so you can see all the ways the current system of centralized power is massively screwed up, staggeringly inefficient and unjust, and suffocating to human progress. Then realize that Bitcoin can fix all of that by decentralizing power.

In bland and general terms, we're talking about a tremendously higher standard of living for everyone in the world (even the current power elite, although less so), a jetpack strapped to the back of technological advancement, the Internet showing its true power, a vast clearing away of suffering and injustice of many kinds...it sounds unbelievable until you realize just how messed up things are currently, and why. Much like the early Internet, people who understand this often avoid mentioning all this because it sounds "too good to be true," yet it is true - in fact even these gushing forecasts probably will be looked at as lacking in imagination in 20 years.